Word: accept
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...truly important: taking the realistic steps necessary to delay age-related disease. I will read Weil's entire book and recommend this article to my patients. John Kaufmann, M.D. Boca Raton, Florida, U.S. With his baby-bottom complexion and piano-player hands, Weil is unlikely to find his advice accepted by those of us who put up drywall, frame houses, work with horses and repair trucks and cars. By age 60, we are so beat up that eating biscuits and gravy is like consuming the elixir of the gods. Bill Crookham Caldwell, Idaho, U.S. It was nice to have advice...
...have any reason to believe that Judge Alito, once elevated to be Justice Alito, would be likely to accept a constitutional challenge to the Solomon Amendment,” Minow wrote in an e-mail. “The statutory interpretation argument offered in our amicus brief might be appealing to him...but if forced to bet, I’d bet against that prevailing, too,” she added...
...classrooms to see this tragedy unfolding. With even the best lecturers, truth comes across as an inert object in a fixed world. We are turned into empty receptacles for this pre-packaged knowledge, which we are then expected to regurgitate upon command. Implicitly, our curriculum dictates that we passively accept this rigid veritas and, correspondingly, the way the world is. Theoretically, the discussion section that accompanies so many of our lecture courses is the place for this veritas to come alive. It is our chance to challenge “the truth” as given...
...over creationism. When you're having 100 arguments at once, no one of them matters the way it used to. It's important not to use a 19th century moral lens to evaluate the kind of debates we're going to have in the 21st century. We have to accept that the general noise level will increase, but that doesn't matter. You can be a creationist at night and go to work in the morning as a pediatrician and save lives...
...Heated” discussions ensued, and they voted to “accept the resignations of those who resign because of their objections to the principle of The Club...